Marcela Durán

Marcela S. Durán is the Community Practicum coordinator for the Concurrent pre-service teacher education program at York University. She also teaches pre-service courses with the Faculty of Education.

She has been involved throughout her professional career in a variety of projects that connect community organizations and community concerns to the world of schools and to teacher education. With the Faculty of Education she has had the responsibility of developing the Westview Partnership which is now in its 12 year of operation. She also has developed the community field work experience program for the concurrent program which she now coordinates. Prior to her work at York University she worked at the former North York Board of Education as a Multicultural Consultant and Equity in the Curriculum Coordinator.

Marcela is a teacher; she did her undergraduate degrees in the University of Chile in Santiago and her graduate studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto.